438 CLYI, CYPERACEZ (CLARKE). { Bulbostylis. 
Glumes ovate, acuminate, with a small mucro, pubescent. Style 3-fid. 
Nut 4-2 the length of the glume, round-trigonous, narrowly obovoid, 
somewhat narrowed at the top, pale brown, with about 15 slender 
longitudinal striations, and trabeculate horizontally between the striz ; 
style-base left on the nut as a small depressed button.—Rendle in Cat. 
Atr. Pl. Welw. ii. 126. Fimbristylis barbata, Ridley in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 152. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; on the Island of Casanga, Welwitsch, 
6982! sandy shore of Praia de Zamba Grande and Maianga d’E) Rei, Welwitsch, 
7000! Mossamedes; Cabo Negro, on the banks of the River Caroca, Welwitsch, 
6962 ! 
The separate heads of spikelets (here usually umbelled) resemble greatly the 
head of B. barbata (always solitary); the marking of the nut differs. 
20. B. capillaris, Kunth, var. trifida, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 652. A densely tufted annual. Stems 2-12 in. long, 
setaceous, at the top glabrous. Leaves } as long as the stems, seta- 
ceous ; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Spikelets in a 
simple or compound lax umbel, all solitary, or in weak examples, 
only 3-1 to a stem; bracts setaceous, short. Spikelets usually } by 
zg in., about 12-flowered, but vary from ,), to } in., from dark-brown 
to pale brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly acute, nerveless, 
pubescent; keel pallid. Stamens usually 2; anthers narrow-oblong, 
muticous. Style as long as the nut, filiform, glabrous; branches 3, 
long. Nut 2 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, 
pallid or pale brown, smooth, without vertical or transverse undulate 
lines, or the transverse undulations faintly indicated ; outermost cells 
short oblong longitudinally ; style-base persistent on the nut as a small 
depressed ovoid button.—C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. 
Fi. Afr. v. 612; Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 1. 305; Durand & 
De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soe. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89; Rendle in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 125. B. trifida, Kunth, Enum. ii. 213, ef. 205. 
Scirpus capillaris, Linn. Mant. 321 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
148. Lsolepis trifida, Nees in Wight, Contrib. 108 ; Hook. f. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. vii. 224; cf. Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 178. Fimbristylis 
capillacea, Steud. in Zoll. Verz. Ind. Archip. ii. 61; Ridley in Trans. 
Linn. Svc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 153. F. capillaris, K. Schum. in Engl. Pa. 
Ost-Afr. C.125. Isolepis capillaris, F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 7. 
Upper Guinea. Togo, Baumann! Dahomey, Newton, 25! Niger Territory : 
Nupe, Barter, 1579! Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 6000-1000 ft., Mann, atte 
2093! Fernando Po: Clarence Peak, 8500 ft. to the summit, Mann, 660! 1471! 
Milne ! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Gafat, Schimper, 1251, bis! Amba 
Sea? 6000 ft., Schimper, 847! Memsa (Memsach), Quartin-Dillon ! British East 
Africa: Athi, Gregory, 23! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 352! Lower 
Congo: Gombi to Lutete, Hens, A, 298! Kisantu, Gillet, 417! 1564! Angola: 
Pungo Andongo; Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6819! Huilla; between Empelanca 
and Humpata, Welwitsch, 6958! around Empelaca, Welwitsch, 69588 ! 
